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Strikes must take place within four months of a ballot under tougher than
expected new curbs on union power.

Border agency and nuclear plant staff have been added to a list of essential
workers — which includes teachers, nurses and transport workers — subject to
extra limits on industrial action, ministers are due to announce today.

In other measures, picket lines will be legally limited to six and employers
freed to use agency workers to break strikes for the first time since 1973.

Publication of a new trade union bill today sets up what threatens to be the
biggest confrontation over industrial